Bitcoin Instability After We Are All Dead

in bitcoin •  7 years ago 

In 2016, a group of Princeton researchers published a paper entitled, "On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward," with intriguing analysis on a rational miner's behavior when competing solely for transaction fees, rather than the block reward that we see today on the Bitcoin network, and also, this is a long sentence.

Source: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~smattw/CKWN-CCS16.pdf

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Wow, I had no idea that could happen.. I'll have to look more into it. Thank you, this is very interesting!

I don't think this would be any sort of threat to the network, though, as Bitcoin works because of the self interest of its participants, not despite of it. As CSW said, Bitcoin uses greed for good.

I'm not a fan of CSW due to his lies, other mess ups in the past and constant humble brags, but this particular claim is in a sense correct, even as he tends to make more confusing claims in almost the same breath.

It should also be understood that long before, some futures and stabilizing updates will most likely be established just to make sure that it doesn't happen in a still very edge case scenario.